People's Union for Civil Liberties vs Union of India

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2010 Supreme(SC) 1358

DALVEER BHANDARI, DEEPAK VERMA
People's Union for Civil Liberties – Appellant
Versus
Union of India – Respondent

Advocates:
Advocate Appeared:
For the Petitioners: Colin Gonsalves, Jyoti Mendiratta.
For the Respondents: Gopal Subramanium, Mohan Parasaran, D.L. Chidanand, Sunita Sharma, Krishna Kumar, N.S. Pundir, S.S. Rawat, Saima Bakshi, Sushma Suri, Anil Katiyar, D.S. Mehra, B.V. Balaram Das, Jana Kalyan Das, Hemantika Wahi, Renuka Sahu, Indra Sawhney, Manish Singhvi, Devanshu Kr. Devesh, Milind Kumar, Navneet Kumar, Rachana Srivastava, T.V. George, Kamini Jaiswal, Sunita Dwivedi, Khwairakpam Nobin Singh, Sapam Biswajit Meitei, Ranjan Mukherjee, R. Sundaravaradan, S.J. Aristotle, Prabu Ramasubramanian, V.G. Pragasam, Jatinder Kumar Bhatia, Pramod Swaup, Sahil K. Dwivedi, R.K. Gupta, Rajiv Dubey, Kamlendra Mishra, Ravi Prakash Mehrotra, Gopal Singh, Manish Kumar, Rituraj Biswas, Tara Chandra Sharma, Neelam Sahrma, Anil Shrivastav, Rituraj Biswas, Edward Belho, Enatoli Sema, P.V. Yogeswaran, T. Harish Kumar, P. Prasanth, V. Vasudevan, Sanjiv Sen, P. Parmeswaran, Anuja Chopra, Atul Jha, D.K. Sinha, Gopal Prasad, Anjana Chandrashekar, D. Bharathi Reddy, Sanjay R. Hegde, Abhishek Malviji, Krutin Joshi, C.K. Sucharita, Sumita Hazarika, A. Subhashini, Kuldip Singh, Ravindra Keshavrao Adsure, Prashant Kumar, Vishwajit Singh, Shekhar Naphade, Sanjay V. Kharde, Asha G. Nair, K.V. Mohan, Rajesh Srivastava, Anuvrat Sharma, K.N. Madhusoodhanan, R. Sathish, R.C. Kaushik, A.K. Singh Tarun, B.P. Yadv, Debasis Mishra, Pradeep Misra, Venkateswara Rao Anumolu, B.S. Banthia, Vikas Upadhyay, G. Prakash, Anil Kumar Jha, Vikas Mehta, Naresh K. Sharma, Anis Suhrawardy, Sunil Fernandes, Vikrant Nagpal, S. Goel, S.M. Jadhav, Aruna Mathur, Amarjeet Singh Girsa, Arputham Aruna, Pramod Swarup, Abhijit Sengupta, Sachin Das, M.N. Krishnamani, Bikas Kargupta, Abhhijit Sengupta, P.S. Patwalia, Manish Pitale, Wasi Haider, C.S. Ashri, J.R. Das, Ramesh Babu M.R.

ORDER :

1. In pursuance to the directions of this Court, Smt. Alka Sirohi, Secretary to Government of India, Ministry of Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution, New Delhi has filed a comprehensive affidavit, a copy of which was handed over to us by the learned Additional Solicitor General in Court, which is taken on record. A serious endeavour has been made to give a clear answer to all the queries raised by us in our last order. Learned Counsel for the petitioner, the Dealer's Associations and the State Governments may file reply to this affidavit within a week from today.

2. In reply to the Court's query why the facilities of the Public Distribution System be not discontinued for people who are Above Poverty Line, a comprehensive reply has been filed in which it is mentioned that after meeting the total allocation of the population in the categories of Antyodaya Anna Yojana and Below Poverty Line, the remaining foodgrains are allocated to the States and the Union Territories for distribution to Above Poverty Line population. That is precisely what the Court had in mind when the previous order was passed.

3. It is also indicated in the affidavit that the Union of India making

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2010 Supreme(SC) 1358

DALVEER BHANDARI, DEEPAK VERMAPeople's Union for Civil Liberties – AppellantVersusUnion of India – Respondent

DALVEER BHANDARI, DEEPAK VERMA
People's Union for Civil Liberties – Appellant
Versus
Union of India – Respondent